Hiccup in patients with advanced cancer successfully treated with gabapentin: Report of three cases

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1182, 2003, Pages

  Porzio, Giampiero ^a   Aielli, Federica ^a   Narducci, Filomena ^a   Varrassi, Giustino ^a   Ricevuto, Enrico ^a   Ficorella, Corrado ^a   Marchetti, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AMINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; HICCUP; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PANCREAS CANCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN TUMOR; COLON TUMOR; FATALITY; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TUMOR; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA;

ACETIC ACIDS; ADULT; AMINES; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; FATAL OUTCOME; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HICCUP; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0642275829     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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